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hello and welcome to another test of the breaking HD this time especially compared against the JBL extreme I think these two are pretty well comparable they are rocked weather resistant speaker models they are similarly big and heavy the braving may be slightly smaller and lighter but this is also quite a break I mean this is not a light speaker anymore and they also should cost the same this is a bit strange because Bravin had a cheaper model the same speaker will 855 on the market already and now they reshoot the same speaker with a higher price tag so let's see if it really deserves this high price compared to the JBL and unlike most other youtube reviewers which managed to talk half an hour about unboxing and features of a speaker I would rather like to concentrate on sound of both therefore I prepared some frequency response measurements first let's have a look at the Bravin in its normal sound mode and as you can see this is not a very flat frequency response there is some high treble peak and the base already rolls off below 200 Hertz there is still some response at 80 Hertz but it's really low amplitude the Raven also has some sound mode called SR as well which you can see in red here and SRS Wow scoops out mids boost bass but you get the strange hump at around 180 Hertz which makes the sound really unnatural there is also probably some sterile enhancing or with this SRS algorithm some phase shifting I don't know but many claim that the Bravin sounds much better with SRS enabled I would rather say that it's sound strange and honky if we have a look at the JBL now in blue we can see that it has a much stronger bass response it has a bass peak at 75 Hertz but you can always take this away with with an equaliser if it's too much for you I think for outdoors it's better to have more bass for the sound to come through but it's also easier to reduce particular frequencies with an equalized then to boost something where there simply isn't anything of course I would like to show you how both sound in reality therefore I thought we will check them out indoors at normal listening levels later on I will also go outdoors and play them at maximum to see which one can play louder which one distorts and so on and unlike many other youtubers who will record their videos with their mobile phones or some cheap camera microphones I am really using high quality binaural microphones so if you listen with headphones with flat sounding headphones you should get a pretty realistic impression of how both sound of course nobody would listen to Debussy or Charlie Parker with these speakers therefore a selected rather electronic start this time and yeah we will have a listen to both I'm starting with the JBL then switch over to the Bravin and yeah please enjoy I think the difference is pretty obvious let's listen something else so and now some rock yeah horrible now let's check how they compare outdoors its maximum volume I'm starting again with the JBL yet Sam Raven appears a bit louder but it's using space no functional bass let's try another house check on Sabbath hallo maybe we should turn on this SRS Wow thing maybe it sounds better like that extreme again well no this SRS is really to forget something us again from nocopyrightsounds Fred called candalyn sounds as if someone was knocking on wood this is not a base for a knocking effect let's try the extreme again yeah the Bravin is definitely a bit louder but there is also much more compression going on and bass is simply missing maybe we should also try a rock track again starting with the JBL yeah it's louder but the sound is simply yeah I'm not a rock listener but I would say they both fail at rock so I hope this was helpful it's starting to rain a bit I'm going back yeah the Bravin is definitely a loud speaker but it doesn't sound good the JBL is maybe not the loudest they are definitely louder ones but I think it sounds simply much better especially at lower levels and not maximum yeah thanks for watching and bye bye